Yo Guys & Gals,
Are you ready for another short story? Too bad, here it comes anyway. Now today wasn't a great weather day . The temperature never got above 44 degrees and I doubt it got to that on the water. The wind brought the water up to a 2 foot chop on Sandy Pond by noon. Not necessarily the best day to pick during Easter vacation week to take your grand daughter out fishing eh? Beggars can't be choosers . 3 days of rain and heavy winds coupled with lacrosse practices, locked Poppy time into this "not prime time slot". This is not sounding like a great day to be in a boat with your grand daughter correct ? Well nothing could be farther from the truth.
Grandpaoligy requires more than a little finesse. It starts with a fast stop at Micky Dees. "Big Breakfast" is her favorite. Snacks are pretty basic, grand ma's home made cherry jam and peanut butter sandwiches. The stop at Midway Bait Shop where Poppy proudly introduces his grand daughter to the owner, the half hour trip to Sandy Pond where poppy gets to find out all the infamily scuttle butt. Now in years past, Poppy would always sublimate Bella's catch performance by keeping a few of the smaller perch to help balance out the catch ratio. To my surprise or maybe I should say dismay, my 11 year old grand daughter had been watching and learning all those valuable fishing techniques Poppy taught her.
In short I have to tell you all, my lovely Bella spanked her grand pa . She out fished me 4 to 1. You all might say it was a fluke or gee Boggey, I've fished with you and I believe it. I'd rather say, I taught her well. All that being said my grand daughter and I brought home over 70 perch, nothing under 8 inches and 4 bull heads. I think several important lessons were learned today, first, humility on my part and second, this grandpaoligy is an ever expanding pseudo science that requires further development. Otherwise , a work in progress. Now I am willing to keep perfecting it till I get it right. All I need is more time with my grand daughter and I might find out how she catches all them perch. After all I was blessed with a brand new grand daughter and grand son this year and practice makes perfect they say.
